Roadkill vs. LynxWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Version
1.6
1.3.0.0
16.3.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-18 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (11 years ago)
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
Author
C.Small
J.W. Davidson
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
C#
C#
Java
Perl, JavaScript
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
small organization to enterprise
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Root Access
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
IIS7 or IIS8
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
IronPython
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
MS Membership and Roles
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
3
Czech, English, Polish
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
none
IronPython
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Roadkill LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
Headlines
== Large heading
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
** bold **
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_
//Italics//
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
_underline_
+underlined+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__under__
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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